An essay is not a display of opinions.
It is an invitation into an argument.
Original student work in the humanities and social sciences. Every essay includes an abstract, keywords, references, and revision date.
The Model Is Not the World: Representation, Prediction, and Scientific Realism
When a model is knowingly simplified or even false yet predicts reliably, does its success show that a theory describes reality? This essay distinguishes predictive success, structural similarity, and mechanistic explanation, arguing that realism gains credibility from the convergence of independent practices rather than the accuracy of a single model.
‘When I Say It Hurts’: Private Experience, Testimony, and the Ethics of Care
Pain seems maximally private, yet must enter diagnosis through language. Drawing on the private-language problem, this essay treats first-person authority neither as an infallible inner report nor as data replaceable by external metrics, but as a discursive position requiring institutional recognition.
Do We Still Share a World?
Personalized feeds are often said to create multiple realities. This essay separates factual disagreement, divided attention, and the breakdown of a common world. Public reality does not require identical content; it requires institutions for shared testing, response, and revision.
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